Israel: Iron Dome anti-missile shield placed near Eilat

To defend Red Sea touristic site

(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, 20 August - Israeli army
has installed yesterday a battery of 'Iron Dome' (a system able
to intercept incoming rockets) in the vicinity of
Eilat, a popular tourist site that overlooks
the south of Israel on the Red Sea, adjacent to the
Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

This was announced by a military spokesman. The missile
defense had been located not far from the place where a few
days ago some fragments of a Grad rocket had been found.

For the second time during the summer the deployment of this
type of shied has occurred: last week another battery - Ynet
underlines - had been placed near Safed, a town in northern
Israel.
The military spokesman said that the adoption of the defense
system - located in a mountain area, not visible from the
highway nearby Eilat, as Ynet website explains - is part of the
effort to disguise the Iron Dome with the topography of the
area.(ANSAmed).